The Sarnian diocese (Sarniensis Ecclesia)

Abstract

The Sarnian diocese is known only for its priest Vitalis (Vitalis presbyter), the last cosignatory of the acts of the Salonitan Church Synod, on the 15th of July 530 presided over by the Salonitan archbishop Honorius II (528-547). In the document known under the name “Historia Salonitana Maior”, whose oldest manuscript version – from the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith (Sacra Congregatio de Propaganda Fide) – is attributed to the cultural circle of the Krbava-Modruš bishop Šimun Kožičić Benja (1509-1536), it was recorded in the above form.